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Women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II. Japanese women first gained the right to vote in 1880, but this was a temporary event limited to certain municipalities, [5] [6] and it was not until 1945 that women gained the right to vote on a permanent, nationwide basis. [7]
During the late 19th century, the first proponents for women's rights advocated, not for political inclusion or voting rights, but for reforms in the patriarchal society oppressing women. Of prime importance to the early feminist movement was the call for women's education. Policymakers believed that this was imperative to the preservation of ...
A women's rights group meeting in Tokyo, to push for universal suffrage. While women's advocacy has been present in Japan since the nineteenth century, aggressive calls for women's suffrage in Japan surfaced during the turbulent interwar period of the 1920s. Enduring a societal, political, and cultural metamorphosis, Japanese citizens lived in ...
Between 1878 and 1883, when the Meiji government restructured the state, Japanese women's political and legal rights were significantly reduced. This restructure paved the way for solidifying Japan's legal structure, but introduced new laws and terms regarding kōmin, "citizens or subjects," and kōken/ri, "public rights."
During the 1980s—a decade which saw Japan ratify the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 1985 [5] and the proposal of Japan's first National Action Plan for combating gender inequality in 1987 [7] —one public opinion survey found that 71% of Japanese women favored separate roles for men and women. [8]
The New Women's Association (NWA, also known as New Women's Society [1] 新婦人協会, Shin-fujin kyōkai) was a Japanese women's rights organization founded in 1919. [2] The organization strove to enhance women's rights in the areas of education, employment, and suffrage. [ 3 ]
Japanese women's rights activists (1 C, 12 P) P. Prostitution in Japan (5 C, 17 P) S. Women's suffrage in Japan (1 C, 2 P) V. Violence against women in Japan (32 P)
Kusunose Kita (楠瀬喜多) was born in Hirooka (part of present-day Kōchi city) as the daughter of Kesamaru Gihei, a rice merchant, in 1836.At the age of 21, she married Kusunose Minoru (楠瀬実), a samurai living in the castle town of Kōchi (the present Tōjin-chō area) and a kendō instructor, but was widowed in 1874.